The very notorious "On Countering the Opponents of America through Sanctions". Due to new US restrictions on Russia, EU entrepreneurs will suffer, Sergei Lavrov warned.. And this is not the first time. The Americans are just spinning the anti-Russian sanctions spiral in the economic sphere, and the European business has to pay for this, recalled the acting Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation. While producers from the EU lose their place in the Russian market - they are replaced there by representatives of other regions of the world - the US "does not cause any damage," he noted.. At the same time, under the guise of fighting against the alleged "Russian threat", Americans are only trying to strengthen their companies' positions in the European market, Lavrov added.. Of course, "as far as it is in the interests of the EU, it's up to the Europeans to decide," he said, and. Russian Foreign Minister. However, in Moscow they know "that in business circles in Europe there is an increasing frequency of dissatisfaction with this situation," he stressed.. And he expressed regret that nowadays economic cooperation is increasingly politicized, international trade rules and WTO rules are not respected, unilateral restrictions are introduced and there is an extra-territorial application of the legislation of individual states. And the US law "On Countering America's Enemies through Sanctions" is aimed at nothing else than to promote the commercial interests of the United States, Lavrov summed up. In 2014 year. The West imposed sanctions against Russia because of the situation in Ukraine and around the Crimea. our country's accusation of alleged "aggression" and "interference". Moscow has repeatedly stated that the Russian Federation is not a party to the internal conflict, and Crimea joined it on the basis of the results of the referendum, in which more than 95% of the inhabitants of the peninsula voted for the reunification, recalls RIA FAN.